To strengthen our Research and Development team
in Merelbeke, near Ghent, Belgium, we are
looking for a linguist with strong project
management skills and experience in quality
assurance. The ideal candidate has a background
in text-to-speech (TTS) and has worked on
commercial speech products. Strong
methodological skills and an interest in
process design are a must. You will learn about
the latest innovations in spoken language
technology and oversee the quality of language
and voice data releases for Nuance’s flagship
text-to-speech system, Vocalizer. The
technology you will work on is deployed in the
majority of cars and speech-enabled mobile
devices on the market today, and is used by
global enterprises and healthcare providers. We
offer a dynamic, international work environment
with rapid growth and a global reach.

Key responsibilities:
- Analysis, monitoring, and improvement of
release processes for the Vocalizer TTS product
line
- Design of tools and metrics to track progress
in pronunciation accuracy and perceptual
quality
- Development of linguistic components for
various languages and tasks, including text
normalization, morphological analysis,
syntactic analysis, and prosody prediction
- Adoption of data-driven techniques and NLU
approaches to refine or replace rule-based
approaches
- Improvement of processes for testing and
evaluation of linguistic components
- Responding to reported issues reported from
deployed systems, analyzing, fixing and
releasing
- Managing improvement and customization
projects of various scope and team sizes
- Number of Years of Work Experience: At least
five years of professional experience are
required

Required Skills:
- The successful candidate is a team player and
a fast learner with an analytical mindset and a
pragmatic approach to problem solving
- Project management
- Quality assurance
- Process design
- Computational linguistics
- Phonetics
- Ability to work in distributed teams
- High proficiency in written and spoken
English

We offer a competitive compensation package and
a casual yet technically challenging work
environment. Join our dynamic, entrepreneurial
team and become part of our fast growing track
of continuing success. Nuance is an Equal
Opportunity Employer.

If you are interested in joining our team,
please send your English CV including earliest
starting date and salary expectations via our
career home page (below) or via the application
email below, reference 1-11121.